But it doesn’t matter, it’s just a year to buffer and adjust your mentality.

I also learned some basketball concepts that I hadn’t thought of before. It’s worth the effort... but it’s a bit tiring to know too much!

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At 8 pm on November 4th, the Trail Blazers came to the American West Arena in Phoenix to challenge the Suns away from home.

The Suns have played three games, and a strange situation arises - the Suns' scoring leader is the Sharks, who averages 23.7 points per game!

Terry Porter continues to serve as interim head coach of Suns.

With O'Neal back to health, the Suns' tactics are slow-paced positional warfare, surrounded by a bunch of people who can shoot, so the game is naturally very comfortable.

Even Little Overlord's mid-range shot has been developed. Last season, Little Overlord's short-range mid-range shot rate was 46%, regular mid-range shot 53%, and long two-point shot 42%. Although the number of shots was not many, it was very stable.

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This allowed O'Neal to successfully recover at the beginning of this season!

Liu Xiu remembered that this season's Sharks averaged 20+9 per game before the All-Star weekend, and his shooting percentage was a career-high 65%. He was selected for the All-Stars... but his record was not good.

Now it is obvious that the record is not good. The Suns lost three consecutive games in the beginning, losing to the Spurs 101-107, losing to the Mavericks 102-105, and last night they lost to the Lakers 101-109.

O'Neal likes to play positional warfare, but the rest of the Suns are not suitable for this, and they can't guard it.

Steve Kerr's operation was confusing. He said that he felt that the fast break could not win the championship, so he traded Marion for O'Neal. Then in the offseason, the substitute lineup was good at defense, or he would be traded away.

Otherwise, the contract was not renewed and a bunch of pitchers and physical men were signed.

Nowadays, the offense in positional warfare is quite awkward. If we play a traditional offense around O'Neal, we can't defend him defensively.

Maybe as the season progresses and the offensive end cooperates tacitly, it will be better. Anyway, it's quite difficult now...

Regarding Steve Kerr's operation, Liu Xiu and his teammates complained that it was another waste of Nash's peak year.

Liu Xiu played 30 minutes tonight and made 6 of 9 shots, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 20 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. Hill had 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

Kwame Brown had 7 points and 13 rebounds, Randolph had 16 points and 8 rebounds, and Ray Allen scored a game-high 23 points...

106 to 97, the Trail Blazers easily defeated the Suns and won.

O'Neal made 8 of 13 shots tonight and scored 20 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.

Weighing 147 kilograms, the healthy O'Neal, even at 36 years old, is still very good! Only 4 of 10 free throws were a hindrance, otherwise he might have scored more than Ray Allen.

When I am physically strong, I cannot defend in singles, and I have accepted that I am older and can no longer play in singles. I am willing to move at close range, adjust my position, and find opportunities to eat... It is rumored that the Suns have finished the preseason.

, the Bulls made an offer to the Suns to trade Okur for O'Neal, but Steve Kerr rejected it.

The reason is that we don’t want to make the championship competitors stronger.

After the start of the regular season, O'Neal was visibly healthy and in such good shape that Steve Kerr's reasons for refusing the trade were recognized by many people.

But Liu Xiu feels that Steve Kerr doesn’t want Okur, who can protect the rim, shoot three-pointers and play in isolations... Nash is so miserable!

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On the 6th, the Trail Blazers came to Salt Lake City, and the league announced the Best of the Week awards for the first week.

East: McGrady of the Knicks, 3 wins and 0 losses, averaging 29 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

West: Danny Granger of the Rockets, 4 wins and 0 losses, averaging 26 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.

After a night's rest in Salt Lake City, the next day came when the Trail Blazers challenged the Jazz away from home.

The Jazz have been very unlucky this year.

Kirilenko continued his poor form in the Olympics. His performance in the preseason was poor, and he was relegated to the bench in the regular season.

Also placed on the bench was Tyson Chandler.

Chandler was disliked, another summer passed, and there was still no progress.

He is very good at helping to defend Chandler, but in the area of ​​rim protection that the Jazz need most, he is not as effective as Costa Koufos, the 23rd overall pick in this year's first round.

However, in terms of overall strength, Chandler is definitely much better than Koufos. It is said that Sloan wanted to stimulate Chandler to see if he could make Chandler stand out.

But based on Liu Xiu’s understanding of black athletes over the years, can you clarify that such incentives are useless and not as strong as the stimulation of contract years?

The Jazz's unluckiness doesn't stop there. Paul, Boozer, and Szczerbiak, the Jazz's top three players in scoring per game, are also plagued by injuries. They started getting injured in the preseason.

In the 3 regular season games, the three brothers each played 1 game.

At 7:40 pm, after Liu Xiu and his teammates entered the Energy Solution Arena, they saw the starting lineup on the opposite side - Jarrett Jack, Ronnie Brewer, Jason Kapono, Chandler, Ku

Fox.

Paul's fragile hamstring... Regardless of his character, Liu Xiu felt very regretful that such an opponent was eroded by injuries.

Paul continued to be troubled by hamstring injuries early in his career. This was not the only injury. He suffered a cruciate ligament injury in college and an ankle injury in his second year in the NBA... This year he began to suffer from hamstring injuries again.

Paul, who was only 22 years old last season, was evaluated by Magic as synonymous with talent. If he continues to play like last season and reaches his peak in his twenties and seventies, how strong will he be?

But maybe it’s because of this style of play that Paul’s hamstrings, knees, and ankles have been under undue pressure?

Before the game, Liu Xiu gave Paul a hard time. After the game started, he played very hard.

Three of the opponent's five starters are injured. If we lose, where will we put our face?

However, the coaches don't pay much attention to this and focus on tactics.

On Sloan's side, although the battalion was full of injuries, he was still doing what he should do - playing defense and testing the Trail Blazers' offensive stability and adaptability.

Although the Jazz were missing Paul, they still did a very good job on defense. The Trail Blazers' not-so-perfect offense was hampered.

Then, Sloan started swearing.

Adjustments for the Trail Blazers to encounter problems - Warden Strikes!

Liu Xiu played 41 minutes and made 17 of 27 shots, including 1 of 4 three-pointers, plus 7 of 7 free throws. He scored 42 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals.

Plus Randolph with 17 points and 6 rebounds, Ray Allen with 16 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Outlaw with 10 points and 6 rebounds, and Kwame Brown with 6 points, 17 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 4 blocks.

Support the defense... 103 to 96, the Trail Blazers started with 4 consecutive victories!

Although Sloan was scolding, he had to admit that this opponent's new system had a high probability of success!

Play very flexibly, not sticking to the system itself, and try to rely on the abilities of the stars...

This reminds Sloan of the three dynasty Zen masters. At that time, the Zen masters' triangle offense changed from a two-forward swingman play without a center to a play based on a super center with one inside and one outside. In 1999

When Jackson joined the Lakers in the summer, not many people thought he could succeed, but it was incredible that he directly led the team to complete the dynasty.

However, Zen Master, who had to think carefully about every tactical detail at that time, no longer has that motivation. After integrating Deron into the triangle offense, he no longer polishes the tactical details as carefully as he did when polishing the details of the OK combination tactics.

It became 'just enough'.

The Zen Master is no longer the Zen Master he once was, but the coaching staff of the Trail Blazers. With his unconstrained ideas and novel tactical ideas... Sloan felt that he was miserable.

Why is his coaching career so bumpy?

Formidable opponents come one after another...

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After returning to the hotel after defeating the Jazz, the Trail Blazers coaching staff gathered in the vice president's suite for a meeting.

The vice president looked at this group of people and wanted to give up the privilege of living in a suite like Liu Xiu.

I come to him every time I have a meeting!

But really asking him to give up on his own... ahem, this is a symbol of the team's status.

Neither the general manager nor the coach received this treatment. Several vice presidents of the team and the warden who had this clause added to their contract extensions only received this treatment when they stayed in the hotel.

But the vice president was very happy with the content of the meeting.

Sloan feels that the Trail Blazers' new system can work, and the Trail Blazers coaching staff feels the same way.

The performance in the first 4 games was much better than they expected!

Mustache said excitedly: "The Butcher is not as lazy as you said, right? What I worry about most is that he is unwilling to play pass and cut to cooperate, so I deliberately added mid-range and short-range singles for him, but I didn't expect him to cut through.

The finish was very good, the counterattack was also very active, and the intimidation of a 120kg player rushing..."

After Mustache finished speaking, the intern assistant coach echoed: "Yes, I was initially worried about him switching defenses under the basket as a center on the defensive end, but his enthusiasm is far better than I thought. He is so strong and so agile.

, it’s a pity that the defensive awareness is not good enough. Mark is better at this, as well as support and pick-and-roll... However, Butcher’s personal offense is too good to make up for those shortcomings. His shooting rate in almost every mid-range area this year has reached 40%.

, mid-range support and singles are all so good..."

Seeing how excited the two were, the vice president didn't know whether to say that this was the power of a 'contract year'. In previous years, if he hadn't gained 30 pounds to start the new season, that guy wouldn't be called Zach Randolph.

In the end, the vice president decided not to say anything. Everyone who understands understands.

For example, Coach Bush, who loves money as much as Randolph, doesn't find it strange that Randolph started this year with a perfect weight.

In fact, in terms of the starting lineup, the only point of concern was Randolph, but in the regular season, Randolph's performance made the coaches feel at ease.

What surprised them was that after 4 games, Gasol was the one who integrated into the tactical system the fastest.

Gasol's tactical understanding is truly the best on the team. In the eyes of the coaches, even Warden can't compare to him in this aspect.

However, Gasol is the one who integrated into the system the fastest, which is surprising, but he only plays so much time, and his weight limits what he can do, so he is not that eye-catching in the eyes of fans.
To be continued...